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Philip Marlowe: The Open Window (EP1529) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Detectives dot net. But now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of
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Philip Morlow. The original air date October eighth, nineteen forty nine and the
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title the Open Window, Get This and Get It straight. Crime is a
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sucker's road, and those who travel had wind up in the gut of the
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prison of the Grave. This started with a terrified woman lost in amaze of
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memory she couldn't explain, and waiting for outside an open window was debt on
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the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most
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famous character in the Adventures of Philip marlow Now with our star Gerald Moore starred
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as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story the open Window. California
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is a year round kind of place where each day blends into the next with
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a sort of sunny indifference. But the one just passed have been a little
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special. It was the cool Chris Bottom weather that reminded you of the East,
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where ottom meant kicking your way through knee deep drifts of brown and yellow
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leaves along a rutted country road that hinted an adventure at every turn. And
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that's the kind of a day it's been. But now, a little past
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eight, as I stood at the window of my third floor apartment, stared
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out over enough improved Los Angeles real estate to house maybe half a million people,
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tonight, I wanted no part of because the world was out there minding
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everybody else's business, while I was in here, minding my own. In
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here, everything was in order and cozy I could read if I want to
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write a letter, if I want to, oh, just relax with Oh
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no, your name for the mono? Yeah? Why because I had that
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name of mister Drews written here in this car. I think I was supposed
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to see you? Do you know me? Oh no, frankly, I
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don't. What were you supposed to see me about? Oh you, mister
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mom sort of I'm a private detective. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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it's not that bad a record. Why don't you comme in and we'll
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talk to about Come on, sit down, won't you? We look like
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and if you can use a drink you want? Thank you just need the
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rest of whom Now I've been walking for hours? Well, now tell me
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what is it? A man? I think someone's been following me. I
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was followed here. I'm sure I don't know why. Really, this is
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Los Angeles, California, isn't it. Yeah? I keep thinking that I
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feel as though it should be Vancouver, British Columbian. Oh. I don't
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know how I got here or why I want to see you, but I've
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walked until I'm nearly exhausted enough. I found that i'd written your name and
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address on his card. His's what I decided to come and try to find
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out. I'm not tell me. Do you know who you are? No?
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I don't know who I am. This man you're afraid of you know
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him? No? But I believe he knew me. You reminded me of
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Vancouver, and that frightened me. I seem to remember I saw me a
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year ago. Maybe it was See how crazy? Is that something I can't
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help? I can't remember it. Take it easy, now, you better
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lie down on the damn. That's it. Come on, I had a
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girl. Look, I think we ought to call a hospital and see it.
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Stay away. It's company in the hall. Maybe for us. I
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just take it easy. Hey, hey, you holding it? Hold on
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there? Oh great, I couldn't see. Don't let it bother you know,
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honey, it's probably just one of my clumsy neighbors. Never watches where
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he's going, you know. The other night right, whoever was out there
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was looking for me? No report? No, I look, honey,
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isn't it something you can tell me? Don't you remember? Any look in
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my person thinks in that I don't understand. Maybe there'll be some hill Gee
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address on a piece of brown paper. Eighty four one hundred North Virtual Tompkins.
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Does that mean anything to you? Snap shot out with one of the
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pictures missing? No, it was, but don't remember what the picture was.
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Please please try to find out who I am and why I'm being followed.
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Please try to find out why I'm afraid. All right, I used
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stay here, like get back, huh God or anything. I'll wait right
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here. I'm time. I figured what she needed most was rest, and
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she was getting that fast. So I dropped the items from a person in
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my pocket, snapped the lock on my apartment door, and left. My
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first stop was the phone downstairs in the lobby, where I found out that
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the Missing Person's bureau had no one on file answering her description. My next
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stop was eighty four hundred North Virgil. A half hour later, I found
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it, a crumbling stucco rooming house in a wead of knobby hills, puddled
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with other ramshackle houses that years ago had abandoned any hope of beauty in the
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face of the leaky, bobbing oil wells that had invaded the neighborhood like a
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heart of huge, greasy grasshoppers. I walked past one of the creaking monsters
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in the front yard, then down a grimy hall with Doormark manager Jacob Philpotts
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alow, which some neighborhood wagon pencils thinks it wasn't funny. Neither was Jake
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Philpotts. Yeah, speak up's fardy, I'm very busy killing a soldier.
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What's on your mind beside your hat? Okay, comic, I want to
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see Tompkins. Oh you want to see That's what I said. Why you're
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too light? Fardy? He's gone blue, threw the coop, took the
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five hundred. There was a shoved off two hours ago away for his home
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town. I guess Vancouver, Upper Canada, which is a long walk,
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sporty. So your beggar by wait a minute, Jake, way, did
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Tonquins get the five hundred? Some crossed the guy. David to him,
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blassy guy, and why why to get out of towel and stay out?
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So he does, but first he pays back all his back rent and buys
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me a bottle. Besides, I'm not sweeter that stuff over there. Hated
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you? Who is the classic guy? Why do you want Tonkins out of
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town? Why? How do I know? Why? Am I in Acyclopreia.
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I look nosing. My wish is getting cold, So why don't you
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alone? I want to know who the guy was, and I want to
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know. I'm sorry. You're goodness top pushing that you want to fight,
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get easy, you'll beat yourself at dead. Let's negotiate. Prop up against
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the wall and I'll talk to you. What about a price for another bottle?
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That stuff? I wouldn't just another bottle, that's what I said.
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Oh well, that's that's different. That's very nice of you, sting,
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Not really, kid, I'm trying to poison you know what was Tompkin's record,
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Oh Gardner copping the Hanging Man. Nothing much of it? Was the
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classic guy that bought him off. Let's see his name right on the tip
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of my tongue a minute ago, right handed, flashy dress so had a
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sort of a oh oh boy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's chat
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Parmel very good. Now one more. Where can I find him? Why?
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He said something about running the pearls. Yeah, to dive on Highland.
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Thanks Phil Potts, tank race polon your bother. Remember this band comes
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to seventh fifty attack Don kidding, old kid. A Jakie can squeeze that
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junk out of sal potatoes, potato and have a happy hangover outside. The
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smell of the oil well as I passed it was welcome by comparison to Jake,
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which made it tough to reconcile anything I'd seen at eighty four hundred Virginal
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the girl asleep from a dive band in my apartment. As I drove back
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the Hollywood, then down Highland Avenue, the night was still strangely quiet.
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Everything seemed to come in whispers, even the hunch I had at the vanishing
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mister Tompkins had sold out dirt cheap to the boss the Pros. Near Third
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Street, I spotted the place, palked aways beyond it, and walked back.
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It was one of those dumps that dealt in bad bar whiskey, second
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rate buck and a lot of darkness. I shook off a brace of last
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weekends on my way through, ded up the stairs to the offices, where
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a block of orange light on the floor had a two tone conversation told me
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to stop, look and listen. I have to show you. Huh hah
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all I no, my will. You're not easy to get over. I
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still love you and I've missed you so when you dropped me for your stuffy
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broker friend, I did a little checking up and I found out planning about
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Cooper, about Cooper Gerrard. I don't believe. Ah, but you shirt,
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Honey, you've seen Almo's not about him specifically, but about a woman.
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A woman was all wrong? Who spells trouble this deep? And I
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can prove it. I went to work on it tonight, and things are
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going to be different from now on. Buddy, get out of here,
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go on. All I want to know is said, beat it. I
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have a mind buster. It doesn't matter anymore. My presence is now known.
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Come on, in junior, you can hear better inside. I doubt
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it. I'll inhibit the performers. Thanks anyway, Baddy, I want to
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try the end of the hall and left. It's usually there, okay,
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all I want to know, hello, Hello? What do you want?
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Missed it? Make it snappy? Okay? Why'd you pay Tompkins leave town
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tonight? Tom Oh? Are you malo going to answer the question promily?
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I certainly I didn't pay in the leaf Town. I paid them for some
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work, carponent work. Why but the matter Alane whip handles not a bit
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baby. Look, why don't you run along now? I'll call you later.
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Oh here's your cigarette case, my cigarette case. Yeah, take it
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with you. We'll get in touch later. Okay, all good night,
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mama. Miss that's a cute kids too. All right, all right?
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Why are you interested in Tompkins? There's a certain lady is interested in la
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business. Okay, go on, it's key. What door does it fit?
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Pomy? How should I know? Have you got anything else? Is
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not enough to worry about, marlow So I suggest that you leave, and
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in case you have any doubts, this thing goes off awful easy, I
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see your point. Yeah, and I just assumed shoot is not. So
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start down those stairs and don't look back. I bust for a couple of
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the boys. They'll be at the bottom. They help you out the front
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door. Oh and Marlowe, take some advice. I don't like your type,
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so don't come back. Boys escorted me politely as far as the sidewalk,
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and get me a send off, the pile me into the gutter.
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It's my own fault, and commonly get the drop on me. But it
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was father ahead of midnight. Figured in fact, I was lucky. All
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I got was the bounce. I limped back to my car, got in
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and started home. But something about the trio of Normal La Casso Pomally and
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I broke. A named Girard was off setting, and Gerard's connections were too
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strong to pass up. So I decided to let the pale woman asleep in
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my apartment go right on sleeping while I stopped at a phone booth. Found
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only one Cooper Girard listed, and he had eighty one twelve North Orange Drive.
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It was a lonely house up in the Hollywood Hills. I tried the
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bell and got no answer. I knew he was there. I slipped the
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enigmatic key out of my pocket and listened to the music coming from inside.
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I stuck it in the lock. I turned just as the footsteps inside,
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so I pulled it out fast and let the party on the other side of
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the door. Do the armors? What is it, mister Geran, Yes,
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I'm Cooper Girard. What is it? I'd like to come in and
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talk to you. My name is Marlow. I'm a private detective. I've
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got a key that fits your front door, plus a little photo album full
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of a girl here. I that's Margaret's album. And her key. You
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found, OHI ishie, what's happened to her? She's safe. Come in
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the upper room right. So her name's Margaret, Margaret what vs? Margaret
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vs? But where is she? I've been frantic. I just called the
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police. She left the house this morning and didn't come back. It's late
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now, and in her condition, I'm afraid. What is Margaret's condition,
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mister Gerard. She was injured in an auto accident a year ago last July
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up near Vancouver, affected her mind. But is just a minute. There
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are some questions that I'd like answered. First, exactly what is Margaret Vsy
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to you? On July ninth, nineteen forty eight, when that horrible accident
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happened, nothing merely a hitchhiker, my wife and I were motoring back from
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a vacation in Canada. He picked Miss VZ up on the road and the
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accident. Grace, my wife, was killed, as Visy seriously injured.
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All I knew about her was that she was alone in the world, so
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there was no one to help him. Well, since I was driving the
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car, I assumed that responsibility east I could do. I stayed with her
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in Vancouver uncause she partially recovered and then brought her here. She's been with
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me ever since. Now would you please take me to her? But the
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story doesn't end there. What do you mean, Margaret Visa's in trouble and
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she's scared. What do you know about a man named Tompkins? Why?
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Nothing? I don't know any Tompkins. You do know a normal A Casso,
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don't you Norma? Of course, mister Casso and I are quite good
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friends. What about Alan Palmerley? Heard him? And he runs a nightclub?
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I believe right now? Tell me? Can you tell me why a
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third picture is missing in the album? Let me see here? This is
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very strange. Margaret cherishes every picture in this album. She thinks that one
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was stolen. Any idea with the picture? Why no? I can't imagine
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why it was stolen. All the pictures were simple, harmless snapshots. You
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can't remember the one that's missing? Marlow? What does all this mean?
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What's it all about? All as new as I can tell? This?
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Some kind of nasty shape I'm brewing. I don't know how why? But
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Alan Pomiley's behind it. Margaret Vis's caught in the middles. It involves you
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too. Come on, let's go get it. She's asleep in my place.
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You didn't leave her alone, Yes I did. You shouldn't have done
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that. Couldn't you tell from a mental state that she isn't responsible? For
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two days, she's been moody, she's been talking about suicidal ad Let's travel
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in just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe. But first,
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by the time you've listened to Johnny Dollar, Philip Marlowe, Gangbusters and Escape
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and the CBS All Star Saturday Night lineup, you may be pour some slow
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thing of your own. So try it with sing It Again and the phantom
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voice. Don't always let the other guy or gal solve the mystery. Try
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it yourself with sing It Again on most of these same CBS stations every Saturday
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night. Mean tune in this ball. This shows that you love best of
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all carefully, here's the address it Now with our star Gerald Moore, we
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returned to the second actor of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story, The Open Window.
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It took ten minutes to get in Gerard's house to my place. I
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knew because he reminded me of each one as it passed. And when we
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turned on to Franklin, where we could see my apartment house. The word
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Harry is stuck in his throat. An ambulance was pulling away from a tight
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lot of people standing on the concrete driveway beside the building, and three flaws
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above them, going like a single, ugly and blinking eye. Was the
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window of my own apartment wide open. Even before I could stop the car,
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Jaratt was out from running tar the crowd. Isn't that ambulance a woman?
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Mister? It was terrible there? Did you say it? Yes?
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Brother? They say she'd been laying here on the concrete for least a half
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hour before anybody got to her. Quiet around here. Wait, I didn't
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tell me what she did, just they don't give her a chance. Let's
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go upstairs. The police are up there now. They're trying. You say,
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the woman came here to your apartment, miss Marlowe and ask you for
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help. Is that right? That's right? Opposite? She was frightened and
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exhausted, and I left. She was asleep on the diver in. There
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was the door locked, Marlowe. It's kind of night lights, Gerrod,
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I snapped at myself, and you left her alone? Right? Mm hmm?
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Well take a look around. We'll just see if you can find anything
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to indicate that an outsider came in while you were gone. What makes you
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think there was an outsider here? Because I don't think she fell. Margaret
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was a mental turmoil, officer. She's been despondent. It's possible that she
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jumped. Yeah, how many people have you heard of that jumped out of
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a window backwards? Mister I think she was pushed pushed. Yeah, come
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here, both of you. I want to show you something. He went
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over to the window and pointed to five scratches were thinking I was, and
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taught the paint off the case. The one that had to be made by
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her thumb was the lowest. It was true she had gone out backwards.
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As the officer explained that that Gerard, I stared down at the dwindling knot
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of people three stories below, then up again at the five jagged scars ripped
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deep by a terrified woman's nails. Stared at them until I screamed at me
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as a sick mind must have screamed when she fell. Mister Marlowe, what
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about this cigarette stub with lipstick on it? Cigarette stubb? Hey, that's
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exactly what I'd like to know, Gerard, where does normal live Hillcrest Apartments
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on Sunset? But shoot, never mind what I think. You go to
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the hospital and find out about Margaret. I'm going to pay a call on
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normal A Casso right now. She's a type to be jealous. And I'm
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Mala, listen, you're making a mistake. That cigarette stubb must be Margaret's
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because Norma doesn't smoke. Noma doesn't smoke. What about the cigarette case?
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Hey, Busty, you better check the Lieutenant Matthews at homicide. I'll see
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you later. Hey, come back here. The Hill Crest apartments fit normal
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a castle to a tea. It was sleek off tones of burnished wood,
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streamlined and glass, and just enough chrome around to glitter. And once she
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answered her door and glossy green lounging pajamas edged in gold, and smiled and
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tossed the head of hair that was almost burgundy back to my face. And
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you what Alan Pomery meant, Loving Normala Casso would be hard to get over.
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Hello, Junior, don't tell me you're joining the league. Dude.
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It's fast, you know. Exkip it, baby, I'm coming into your
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mind. Are they're doing any good. Yeah, comfortable and makes you drink.
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You know me? You know Margaret Vizy. Don't you let that stays
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draw? Yeah. A little while ago she dropped three floors from an open
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window to a slab of concrete lay there over thirty minutes before she was found.
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All look at me like that. I mean it, I like Margaret,
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so do I. Well, she didn't fall, she was pushed.
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Got a cigarette? Sure, yes, catch nice? Just one cigarette?
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Toust like that. Man, it's a lovesy. You're supposed to pass the
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kiss and let the guests help themself. I don't keep right on twisting until
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I tell a gold cigarette case drops head door about me in there, that
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I had to help yourself. The pictures there under the bottom layer of cigarette.
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But why it's important it is beyond me. It's important to Pomily baby,
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had you smuggled out of his office so I couldn't find it? Margaret
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and gerout it's some little amusement park Vancouver. Probably told me how I used
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to take her out while she was recovering from that accident. So what And
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the autographs that make no sense to me? Yeah, this one's head,
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this must be his. Even the hottest day in Vancouver's history. That's it.
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It was all of it. Now when you apologize for these wealth on
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my arm? I kidding, old deal screw. The only way would make
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any sense is, oh my, where's your plumber over there on the phone?
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What have you got? Just an idea? So fast to ground?
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That's the US government or s SAIDs Weather Bureau. I'm a logical records,
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Yeah, mutual six or two one Weather Bureau records. Hello, listen,
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can you tell me what the hottest day on record in Vancouver has been?
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I mean the date? Do you have that information? Glaumbia. Yes,
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we've got it in and I'm pretty sure just a minute, I'm not sure.
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Yeah you got it? Hell yeah, I'm here, go ahead.
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The books. Is the hordest day up there was on July three, nineteen
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forty eight? They fine the two degrees. It's a nice place. Vanco
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was up there one year. Yeah, thanks friend. The Weather Bureau had
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just lifted a cloud my lady's mind. I hope you did it in time
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so long, didn't you? It works? Well? Are you going to
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pull a gun? They always do about here? Not me. I got
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conceal it. Welcome, also got della bills of bloodstream instead of copaseles.
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Just smart, baby, So take a tip stick close to home, don't
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even use the phone. A real nice shiny at him. I'd like to
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keep you that way. I'm gonna take you. But what does it mean,
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trouble, Just as soon as I can stir it up. Good night,
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But Mamas. In the time that had gone by, I figured my
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best bed was Gerard's place, but I was wrong. It was deserted,
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so I took the next best, which was Alan Pomally's The Pearls as well.
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After two o'clock when I got there and the club was closed, but
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the lights were on the offices upstairs, I parked, slipped around the back
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and up a flight of iron stairs to a metal door at the top.
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I pressed my weight against it and very gently turned the knob and tugged softly,
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and it swung open without a sound. Voices and the same square of
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orange light on the floor said that Pameli's office was open again. So I
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eased my gun into my hand and moved so I could see it. A
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pair of jackals? Can we get terms over the secret? Mister GERRYI the
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proposition. I'm offering he is perfectly fair. What is it? First,
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did you stop seeing Norma Lacasso? And I mean stop go on? Second
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that you delivered five thousand dollars here to me by the end of the week.
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You must have got a lot of insurance on your wife, Gerard,
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double indemnity too Am I asking too much? Black man leaves me no alternative?
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Is so right? How did you find out that she's not Margaret vs?
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Ha ha a beautiful break? When you started seeing miss La Cassa.
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I began checking out on you in two days ago. That checking up led
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me to the strange woman you called Margaret vs. And the character named Tompkins.
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Ever hear of him? No, an itinerant gardener was looking for work
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at your place. Also, Gerard and itinerant gardner who knew your Margaret vs.
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Well know where is someone named Grace? And Grace Girard lest we forget
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was your wife? When he called her, Grace had scared that she couldn't
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build it, but I could, so I see where is this Tompkins?
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Now? Partly? Oh, don't worry about him. I sent him away.
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You'll keep his mouth shut. He used to be a gardener on the
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wealthy side of Vancouver, where your wife lived. A small world and very
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small. Now wait a minute, your art. I'm going to kill you,
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Pomily. I knew something like this what happened. Someday My wife was
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getting her memory back. She was beginning to remember things to realize that she
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wasn't really my good Busy at all. My goot Busy had died in the
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accident the night a pushed her out of an open window. Doctors practically assure
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me that she'll be bid by morning. She won't be missed, neither will
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you. I'm sure I should be a felly gerod. If you move one
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inch you probably come around here, wait my desk, Come on, it's
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time. I'm glad to see them. Allow you're the lesser of two EQE.
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That's great. Well, it was a sweet story, fellas. But
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when you left that only one thing, the picture. You got it from
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the little album because you needed some tangible proof, didn't you, Pomily.
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And it since to deal because the accident happened on the ninth of July.
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But Gerard here had his picture taken with a supposed hitchhiker on Vancouver's hottest day,
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which was July third, six days before he claims to have met the
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girl picture. How do you manage the master stroke? Gerard? The switch
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and identities in the first place, Come on, talk were here. It
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was a mistake. Both miss Busy and my wife were in the car at
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the time of accident. The car burned, and somehow or other later at
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the hospital, Margaret Visy, who died, was identified as my wife.
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Grace said a memory was gone. You made the switch complete and called your
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wife Margaret Visi and left it like that, you know, Gerard, I
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hope you make a break for it, just once before we get the headquarters.
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Let's go you too. Family moved all right, but you'll have a
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hard time sticking me. Snoop, I haven't done anything. Oh yes,
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you have attempted extortion as of right now. You just insided a rat,
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Doctor Gray, you're receiving war. Please, doctor Gray, you didn't hear
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mister Morrow. Sure it's all right if I see a doctor after what you've
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just told me. I think it's a good idea. The condition has changed
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somewhat. She's responded better than I expected. But you can use some fighting
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spirits in sp maybe you can get it. I hope, So don't take
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long after, Oh, Grace and Philip Marlow or another. I mean,
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I think I do, Mistermorrow, Oh good, I just stopped by to
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tell you that I have all the answers to those troublesome questions in your mind.
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You don't have to be afraid of them anymore. You have nothing to
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worry about now except getting well. Oh, I can't remember where I've been.
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You've been away, Grace for a long time, and now you'll be
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going home soon, your friends. I believe that I'll run along now and
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I'm back tomorrow. When you're feeling bad, have along time. Margaret Das
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very new ones briefly. Well, I'll never forget I went to sleep one
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night on my diet. You will. Don't think about it now. Just
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think about home and Vancouver there soon, I promise. My God's window nothing.
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Yeah, that's what the weather man says. The night, my dear.
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When I finally got home, the air in my apartment was thick,
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full of stagnant fear and stale tobaco smoke. So I went over the window
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to open it up. There I stopped because I remembered standing at that same
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window earlier that evening, standing about thinking how happy I was the world was
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out there, how happy I was to be inside looking out. Then I
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saw again the five deep scratches on the casey inside looking out. There was
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a guy once, a long time ago who said something like, no man
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is an island, the entire of itself. Yeah, about three hundred years
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ago, he said. Then any man's death diminishes me, because I'm involved
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in mankind. Yeah. Sure. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond,
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Chandler's most famous character, star Gerald Moore and are produced and directed by
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Norman McDonald. Script is by Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. Featured in the
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cast were Betty lu Gerson, Ed Begley, Lillian Biaff, Paul Dubob,
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J Novello, and Harry Bartel. Special music is composed and conducted by Richard
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o'ran. Be sure and be with us next week. When Philip Marlowe says,
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this time it was a wrestler and the skids, a quick change,
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hardest in an alley, and a girl with an eye for ankles, I'll
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met destruction because one hundred thousand easy bucks cardom and a stranglehold which none of
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them wanted to break. The next time you're in the woods, make sure
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that cigarette butt, that match, or that campfire is completely out. Only
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you can prevent forest fires. This is Paul Masterson speaking. Now stay tuned
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for Gangbusters, which follows immediately over most of these same stations. This is
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CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back. The last few scenes of
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this episode really epitomize what made Gerald Moore so great as Philip Marlow, because
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you go from the one scene where he confronts the killer with a red hot
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fury, and then we go to a very tender scene in the hospital where
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he's letting the ultimate victim of all this know that it's going to be okay
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and behaving very kindly and tenderly. And Gerald Moore is able to put into
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this role this great toughness along with this beautiful tenderness that makes this interpretation of
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Philip Marlow just so wonderful to listen to. All Right, well, that
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will do it for today. Remember next Tuesday, we'll be bringing you Man
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from Homicide, so be sure and check out that new series. Next week
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another episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow, and tomorrow be with us for
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